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Name Birth date Event and World Ranking MS WS MD WD XD Australia: Chen Hsuan-yu 1 June 1993 (aged 28) 65: Setyana Mapasa 15 August 1995 (aged 25) 23: Gronya Somerville 10 May 1995 (aged 26) 23: 48 Simon Leung 24 November 1996 (aged 24) 48 Austria: Luka Wraber 7 September 1990 (aged 30) 81 Azerbaijan
Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic Champion , two-time World Champion , and four-time European Champion . He has held the No. 1 BWF World Ranking in men's singles for a total of 183 weeks (as of August 2024), and he is the current world No. 3. [ 2 ]
Lim Fang Yang (born 14 February 1989) is a Malaysian badminton player. [1] Lim started playing badminton at age 4, and he entered the Pahang State team when he was 10. [2] In 2007, he reached the semi-final round of the Asian Junior Championships losing to Chen Long (who subsequently became World no.1), settling for the bronze medal. [3]
Name Birth date Event and World Ranking (21 July 2016) MS WS MD WD XD Australia: Matthew Chau 9 November 1994 (aged 21) 36: Robin Middleton 8 February 1985 (aged 31) 28 Sawan Serasinghe 21 February 1994 (aged 22) 36: Chen Hsuan-yu 1 June 1993 (aged 23) 72: Leanne Choo 5 June 1991 (aged 25) 28 Austria
Hu Zhe'an (Chinese: 胡哲安; pinyin: Hú Zhé'ān; born 27 July 2006) is a Chinese badminton player. [2] He clinched the boys' singles gold medal at the 2024 World Juniors. [3] He is also a two-time Asian Junior champion, having won in 2023 [4] and 2024. [5] Hu won his first senior title at the 2024 Baoji China Masters. [6]
Nettasinghe was ranked 773rd in the world by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) in 2022, but had jumped to 150th by March 2023. [2] He won another bronze medal at the Uganda Challenge early in 2023 and received the honor of "Most Outstanding Badminton Player" at the Sri Lankan national school sports awards ceremony in March that year. [2]
Gunawan was born on 18 June 2004 in Hong Kong, [4] to Chinese-Indonesian parents. [5] His father played for the provincial badminton team when he was in Indonesia. [6] He became interested in badminton and started learning the sport at four years old after watching the Lee-Lin rivalry during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [6]
Chloe Noelle Magee (born 29 November 1988) is an Irish professional badminton player. She represented her country at the Olympic Games for three consecutive times in 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, and 2016 Rio de Janeiro. [2] At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she became the first Irish woman to win a badminton